Rod Serling
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Rod Serling

His Life, Work, and Imagination

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eBook - ePub

Rod Serling

His Life, Work, and Imagination

About this book

Long before anyone had heard of alien cookbooks, gremlins on the wings of airplanes, or places where pig-faced people are considered beautiful, Rod Serling was the most prestigious writer in American television. As creator, host, and primary writer for The Twilight Zone, Serling became something more: an American icon. When Serling died in 1975, at the age of fifty, he was the most honored, most outspoken, most recognizable, and likely the most prolific writer in television history.

Though best known for The Twilight Zone, Serling wrote over 250 scripts for film and television and won an unmatched six Emmy Awards for dramatic writing for four different series. His filmography includes the acclaimed political thriller Seven Days in May and cowriting the original Planet of the Apes.

In great detail and including never-published insights drawn directly from Serling's personal correspondence, unpublished writings, speeches, and unproduced scripts, Nicholas Parisi explores Serling's entire, massive body of work. With a foreword by Serling's daughter, Anne Serling, Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination is part biography, part videography, and part critical analysis. It is a painstakingly researched look at all of Serling's work—in and out of The Twilight Zone.

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Information

Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781496819444
Print ISBN
9781496817501
Subtopic
Television

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 From Binghamton to the Battlefield and Back
  9. Chapter 2 A Storm in Cincinnati
  10. Videography 1 Stars over Hollywood and Lux Video Theatre
  11. Chapter 3 Serling’s Obsolete Men
  12. Videography 2 Armstrong Circle Theatre, Hallmark Hall of Fame, The Doctor, and Kraft Television Theatre
  13. Chapter 4 A Return to Radio
  14. Videography 3 Chrysler Medallion Theatre, Motorola Television Hour, and Studio One
  15. Chapter 5 Say Something about Something: Serling on Having a Point of View
  16. Chapter 6 In Praise of the Individual
  17. Videography 4 Danger and Ford Theatre
  18. Chapter 7 “Patterns”: An Overnight Sensation Five Years in the Making
  19. Videography 5 Climax!, United States Steel Hour, Matinee Theatre, and Kaiser Aluminum Hour
  20. Chapter 8 Serling in the Censorship Arena
  21. Chapter 9 From the Middle Ground to the Murder of Emmett Till
  22. Chapter 10 Of “Dust” and “Doomsday”
  23. Chapter 11 Live from Television City in Hollywood: Playhouse 90
  24. Chapter 12 A Ninety-Minute Knockout: “Requiem for a Heavyweight”
  25. Videography 6 Playhouse 90
  26. Chapter 13 In the Presence of Whose Enemies? Serling and Anti-Semitism
  27. Chapter 14 Patterns of Violence
  28. Chapter 15 It’s about Time: Desilu Playhouse’s “The Time Element”
  29. Chapter 16 Entering The Twilight Zone
  30. Videography 7 The Twilight Zone: Season 1
  31. Videography 8 The Twilight Zone: Season 2
  32. Videography 9 The Twilight Zone: Season 3
  33. Videography 10 The Twilight Zone: Season 4
  34. Videography 11 The Twilight Zone: Season 5
  35. Chapter 17 After Twilight: Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Movie and The Twilight Zone: Season 6
  36. Chapter 18 The Loner
  37. Videography 12 The Loner
  38. Chapter 19 Another Christmas, Another Carol, and the Soviet Communist Conspiracy
  39. Chapter 20 Odd Street and The Doomsday Flight: The Twilight Zone Sequel That Never Was
  40. Chapter 21 Rod Serling and Planet of the Apes
  41. Chapter 22 The New People and the Same Old Song and Dance
  42. Chapter 23 “A Storm in Summer”
  43. Chapter 24 A Season to Be Wary of the Night Gallery
  44. Videography 13 Night Gallery: Pilot and Season 1
  45. Videography 14 Night Gallery: Season 2
  46. Videography 15 Night Gallery: Season 3
  47. Chapter 25 Rod Serling: Actor, Narrator … Game Show Host?
  48. Chapter 26 Between Science and Superstition: Rod’s Religion
  49. Chapter 27 A Legacy as Timeless as Infinity
  50. Acknowledgments
  51. Appendix A Additional Videography
  52. Appendix B The Storm: Videography, Notes, and Sources
  53. Appendix C Selected Uncredited and/or Unproduced Titles
  54. Appendix D Rod Serling’s Works and Awards
  55. Notes
  56. Sources
  57. Index
  58. About the Author

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